Additional feature suggestion - Groups

[+fellamee_lad]

Hello signal, lackeys, founders and forum readers(is that everyone?),

I've searched the forums for something similar, but can't find any previous suggestions that overlap with my genius notion, but...

I had an idea which i think would add a 1-2%* improvement to the social aspect of gcing.

Groups man!!!! Yeah i know you are blown away.

 

Each of your principal entities could be grouped into collections temporary or permanent: users into teams, caches into series and trackables into races.

Caches

I realise that bookmark lists alrady exist, but if caches were placed into a parent collection then when all caches are found, the colection coukd be "smilied". The whole series could be published together and available instantly as a pocket query.

Users

At events we go 'caching en masse and sign the logs on behalf of Team X (not always team x sometime team uppergumtree or equivalent). Wouldn't it be just AMAZING if the members of the team could group together to reflect this, so the online world mirrors the offline "real" world? {i hear a resounding "yes" from the lillypad}.

I also know a number of users who regularly 'cache together (although they never invite me :-( ), they could form a permenant group (or clique) which could have its own stats etc. (zt least this will keep kyle mills busy implementin a new range of badges).

TBs (and this is where the whole AMAZING idea came from)

I see a number of trackable travelbug races going on and the level of admin required to maintain them is CRAZY. Why then not just group your TBs on activation as part of the

race and let gc.com do the heavy lifting. (then watch in despair as your TBs go missing :-( So group them together and then any user can search on the group and see the leader board and where the TBs are.

What do you think?

 

* percentages arbitrarily chosen

[+Saza36]

Hello signal, lackeys, founders and forum readers(is that everyone?),

I've searched the forums for something similar, but can't find any previous suggestions that overlap with my genius notion, but...

I had an idea which i think would add a 1-2%* improvement to the social aspect of gcing.

Groups man!!!! Yeah i know you are blown away.

 

Each of your principal entities could be grouped into collections temporary or permanent: users into teams, caches into series and trackables into races.

Caches

I realise that bookmark lists alrady exist, but if caches were placed into a parent collection then when all caches are found, the colection coukd be "smilied". The whole series could be published together and available instantly as a pocket query.

Users

At events we go 'caching en masse and sign the logs on behalf of Team X (not always team x sometime team uppergumtree or equivalent). Wouldn't it be just AMAZING if the members of the team could group together to reflect this, so the online world mirrors the offline "real" world? {i hear a resounding "yes" from the lillypad}.

I also know a number of users who regularly 'cache together (although they never invite me :-( ), they could form a permenant group (or clique) which could have its own stats etc. (zt least this will keep kyle mills busy implementin a new range of badges).

TBs (and this is where the whole AMAZING idea came from)

I see a number of trackable travelbug races going on and the level of admin required to maintain them is CRAZY. Why then not just group your TBs on activation as part of the

race and let gc.com do the heavy lifting. (then watch in despair as your TBs go missing :-( So group them together and then any user can search on the group and see the leader board and where the TBs are.

What do you think?

 

* percentages arbitrarily chosen

 

I fully agree regarding the grouping of TBs, particularly as I am managing a race at the moment. The ability to group these (via perhaps a bookmark) and then display all bookmarked TBs on the same web page, along with current location and total visits/miles would be brilliant, also allowing order by options e.g. name, mileage ;-)

Edited May 24, 2012 by Saza36